Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 583, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 3, 1999, 10:14 PM CST for Creek County, Tulsa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 46 min. 5 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 3, 1999, 10:14 PM CST (04:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 3, 1999, 11:00 PM CST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Creek County, OK, Tulsa County, OK
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 3, 10:39 PM CST | Hail 1 | Slick, OK | |
| Dec 3, 10:40 PM CST | Hail 1 | Sapulpa, OK | Quarter size hail reported at the intersection of highways 66 and 117. |
| Dec 3, 10:40 PM CST | Hail 0.88 | Tulsa, OK | Nickel size hail reported at the intersection of Interstate 244 and Utica. |
| Dec 3, 10:53 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Tulsa, OK | Dime size hail was reported at the intersection of 55th street and Union. |
| Dec 3, 10:59 PM CST | Hail 1 | Owasso, OK | Dime size hail was reported at the corner of 90th street north and 120th east avenue. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 3, 8:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 137 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1132 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Tulsa, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Dec 3, 8:55 PM CST, 1 hour 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 3, 8:55 PM CST, 1 hour 19 minutes before
EASTERN OKLAHOMA/NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OK 855 PM CST FRI DEC 3 1999 UPDATED ZONES TO INCLUDE THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. SEVERE STORMS DEVELOPED QUaICKLY OVER FAR NORTHEAST OK AND HAVE PRODUCED DIME TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL. GENERAL FORECAST LOOKS OKAY AND WILL NOT MAKE ANY CHANGES AT THIS TIME. FCSTID = 02 .TUL... AR...NONE. OK...NONE. ABBAS E
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tulsa, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 3, 8:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes | 45 min |
| Dec 3, 8:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware | 28 min |
| Dec 3, 8:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 40 min |
| Dec 3, 8:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware | 49 min |
| Dec 3, 8:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata, Rogers | 50 min |
| Dec 3, 8:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Mayes | 61 min |
| Dec 3, 8:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 61 min |
| Dec 3, 8:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 40 min |
| Dec 3, 9:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig | 52 min |
| Dec 3, 9:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 43 min |
| Dec 3, 9:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig | 51 min |
| Dec 3, 10:04 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Delaware, Ottawa | 41 min |
| Dec 3, 10:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 50 min |
| Dec 3, 10:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 62 min |
| Dec 3, 10:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers, Tulsa | 49 min |
| Dec 3, 11:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig | 55 min |
| Dec 3, 11:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Craig, Mayes, Rogers | 34 min |
| Dec 3, 11:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Tulsa, Wagoner | 31 min |
| Dec 3, 11:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 51 min |
| Dec 3, 11:51 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Craig | 39 min |
| Dec 3, 11:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers | 48 min |
| Dec 4, 12:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 49 min |
| Dec 4, 12:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 46 min |
| Dec 4, 8:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware | 49 min |
| Dec 4, 10:18 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 42 min |
| Dec 4, 10:32 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee | 43 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.